Kimberly Prine 4/21/15 CJ 112 Assignment #4 Psychological Theories Aileen Carol Wuornos was a serial killer who had killed seven men, widely believed to be the United States’ first female serial killer. She was convicted for six of the murders and sentenced to death, ultimately meeting her end through execution by lethal injection. The product of a highly dysfunctional marriage, Aileen had been subjected to horrific tortures as a young girl. Her father was a psychopathic pedophile who was in jail at the time of her birth while her mother was an immature teenager who abandoned Aileen and her brother. Brought up by her grandparents, she found herself the victim of rampant childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather.
Holding The trial court found that the defedant was negligent as both attorney and officer and fined him $243,722.99. Musselman appealed this decision saying that he lacked the capacity to act as officer and/or attorney. Rationale The trial court found that their decision will be affirmed because not only did Atty Musselman have the capacity to work as attorney and officer but he did so and he did not inform the corporation that Hurt wanted to be ecused from all personal
Williams v. State , 110 So. 2d 654 (1959). Facts Williams was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape of a seventeen year old young woman. The victim testified that while driving a few minutes after leaving a store, Webb City, parking lot on the night of December 18, 1957 Williams stabbed her with an ice pick from the back seat of her car. He then drove her around town, sexually assaulted her twice, stopped the car and left.
The case of Ted Bundy Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy, born Theodore Robert Cowell (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989), was an American serial killer active between 1973 and 1978. After more than a decade of vigorous denials, he eventually confessed to over 30 murders, although the actual total of victims remains unknown. Estimates range from 26 to over 100, the general estimate being 35. Ted Bundy murders were confirmed in multiple states including Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Florida. Ted Bundy would rape strangle and beat young women and girls.
Erma Garcia Page 1 Criminal Justice 1/5/14 Assignment 5.1 Police and the Use of Force LAPD officer charged for arrest that turned fatal. A Los Angeles police officer was charged with assault for allegedly kicking a women seven times in the groin, abdomen and upper thigh during an arrest in which the women ultimately died. Los Angeles County prosecutors filed the charge of a felony assault under color of authority against officer Mary O’Callaghan an 18 year LAPD veteran. The Police Commision, a civilian oversight board,
Whites former fiancée. This would be the standard required in order for the plaintiff to recover under Indiana Law (Ind. Code Ann. 7.1-5-10-15.5). Furthermore, they stated that the act of crashing into the White’s car was not the “proximate cause” of the injuries to the plaintiff and the death of her husband but rather the result of a criminal act by Mr. Hard.
The dogs not only ripped open his belly but jerked out his intestines along the ground for a distance”. The Rape of Nanking was one of the greatest mass rapes in world history. In six weeks, approximately 20,000 women were raped in Nanking. The Japanese soldiers raped Nanking women from
He postured to indicate he had a weapon and declared he would stab us as he repeatedly yelled obscenities as well as calling me a nigger and my wife a nigger lover, (we are an interracial couple married for over 30 years and the assailant is Hispanic whom we later found to be bi-polar with a delusional mind of being a white racist). We feared for our lives as this deranged intruder attempted to rob us and put both my wife and me in this life threatening situation. Again, the assailant said he was going to stab us both as he postured to pull a weapon which led me to believe without a doubt that he had a weapon. My wife grabbed for her clothing as she was only in her panties at the time. I stood defensively and told my wife to call for the police.
Criminal behavior has spurned many debates on nurturing kids vs. the nature of kids but have all concluded in agreeing that genes and environment play an important, and defining role, in the Biological Criminality of a person. “Andrea Yates was born on July 2, 1964, in Houston, Texas. She was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life, but a court of appeals reversed the conviction and found her insane. In 1999, Yates was treated for postpartum depression and psychosis, illnesses that ran in her family. After the birth of her fifth child and the death of her father, she went into a severe depression and was forcefully admitted to Devereux-Texas Treatment Network.
The defendant appealed the manslaughter conviction on the grounds that he could not be liable for the victim’s death as he did not physically kill her. It could be argued that the defendant was right as the victim had been killed by police bullets and not his own. The police officers involved were also negligent as they were accused of taking out the light in the hallway which left them unable to see that the victim was in front of the defendant. The police were found to be negligent and were ordered to pay civil compensation to the victim’s family. However, his appeal was rejected as the defendant’s unlawful and dangerous act directed against the